Show MANS SHORT TERM ferm OF LIFE in comparison with other animals he does not nearly live out his allotted time arule A rule aich ii holds 0 ids fairly true among tho the higher animals is that an animal lives five times time a as long as it requires for his muscular system to reach its full strength the dog Is fully developed at between two and three years of rge age and lives fifteen years tile tho horse reaches reache ii his prime not later late r than five and it he escapes overwork and ill usage lives to be twenty live flye and even thirty in tact fact tho the rule seems to be an understatement of ai vinial e expectation pec tation of life rather than an over tat ement the one conspicuous exception Is man inan who seldom reaches his full muscular cular strength before lie he Is twenty five and counts himself living on borrowed time it he ho passes the ape age of seventy if man mail were as well circumstanced in ili this matter as the horste hone log dog or cat his average term of lift life auld ifould vary from one hundred aud and ten tell to one hundred and twenty five years |